bull(1) (iou) and Pied Piper (oh)

bull(1) (iou)

bull noun1 & adjective.
[Late Old English bula (only in place-names) from Old Norse boli, corresp. to Middle Low German bulle, Middle Dutch bulle, bolle (Dutch bul).]
A. noun.
The uncastrated male of the ox or Other bovine animal. LOE.
a story of a cock and a bull: see COCK noun1. bull in a china shop a reckless or clumsy destroyer. cock-and-bull story: see COCK noun1. full as a bull: see FULL adjective. like a bull at a gate with direct or impetuous attack. red rag to a bull: see RED RAG 3. take the bull by the horns meet a difficulty boldly. talk of a cock and a bull: see COCK noun1.
The male of various Other large animals, e.g. the elephant, rhinoceros, whale, and seal. LME.
(Usu. Bull.) The constellation and zodiacal sign Taurus. LME.
Stock Exchange etc. Orig., stock bought in the hope of selling for a higher price later. Now, a person who buys such stock, a speculator for a rise. Cf. BEAR noun1 4. E18.
A police officer. US slang. L19.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Like a bull; like that of a bull; large, coarse; (esp. of an animal) male. ME.
J. T. Farrell 'Pipe down!' a bull voice called out. W. P. Keller A mature bull elk bugling his mating call. R. West A bull neck almost the same size round as his head.
Comb. & special collocations: bull-and-cow rhyming slang = ROW noun3; bull ant Austral. = BULLDOG noun 4b; bull-at-a-gate adjective directly or impetuously attacking; bull-baiting Hist. baiting a captive bull with dogs, for sport; bullbar (orig. & chiefly Austral.) a metal bar or framework fitted to the front of a vehicle, orig. or ostensibly to provide protection in the event of a collision with an animal; bull-bat US the common night-hawk, Chordeiles minor; bull-beggar [perh. from a different word] a scarecrow; a bogey, a bugbear; bullberry, bulberry = buffalo berry s.v. BUFFALO noun; bull-dust Austral. (a) coarse dust; (b) slang rubbish, nonsense; bull-fiddle US colloq. a double-bass; bullfight, bullfighter, bullfighting (an event, a participant, in) a chiefly Spanish sport in which a bull is first baited by armed fighters on horseback and on foot, and finally killed by a matador; BULLFINCH; bullfrog any of several large frogs with bellowing calls; esp. the largest N. American frog, Rana catesbiana; bullhead (a) any of certain small freshwater fishes with large heads; spec. the miller's thumb, Cottus gobio, or (N. Amer.) a catfish of the genus Ictalurus (esp. the horned pout, I. nebulosus); (b) dial. a tadpole; (c) a blockhead; bull-headed adjective obstinate, impetuous, blundering; bull-headedly adverb in a bull-headed manner, obstinately; bull-headedness the quality or condition of being bull-headed, obstinacy; bull-horn a megaphone; bull huss: see HUSS noun; bull-kelp a large kelp found in Pacific and Antarctic waters; bull market (Stock Exchange etc.): with rising prices; bull-mastiff (a dog of) a crossbreed of bulldog and mastiff; bull-neck a short thick neck; bull-necked adjective having a bull-neck; bull-nose noun & adjective (having) a nose or Other projection with a rounded end; bull-nosed adjective having a bull-nose; bull-of-the-bog the bittern; bullpen (chiefly N. Amer.) (a) a pen or enclosure for bulls; transf. any enclosure, a lock-up; (b) an Exercise area for Baseball pitchers, esp. relief pitchers; transf. the relief pitchers; bull-pine N. Amer. the ponderosa pine; bull point colloq. a point of superiority; bull-puncher Austral. a bullock-driver; bull-pup a bulldog pup; bullring (a) an arena for bullfighting; (b) Hist. a place where bulls were baited; bullroarer a flat strip of wood tied to a string, making a roaring sound when whirled round, esp. as used in religious rites by Australian Aborigines; bullrout Austral. an E. Australian estuarine and freshwater fish, Notesthes robusta, with poisonous spines; bullshit noun & verb (coarse slang) (a) noun = BULL noun4 3, 4; (b) verb trans. & intrans. talk nonsense (to), mislead, bluff; bullshitter coarse slang a person who talks nonsense, a boaster, a pretentious person; bull-snake a large N. American constricting snake of the genus Pituophis; bull's wool Austral. & NZ (a) the inner bark of the stringy-bark tree; (b) slang rubbish, nonsense; bull-terrier a (breed of) stocky short-haired dog that is a cross between bulldog and terrier (pit bull-terrier, Staffordshire bull-terrier, etc.); bull thatch: see THATCH noun 2b; bull trout any of various large migratory trout, esp. the sea trout and lake trout; US the trout Salvelinus confluentus of the west coast of the US; bull-weed [perh. from BOLL noun1] knapweed; bull-whacker US a cattle-driver; bull-whip noun & verb (chiefly N. Amer.) (a) noun a whip with a long heavy lash; (b) verb trans. thrash with such a whip; bullwort a large European umbelliferous plant, Ammi majus.
? Cf. COW noun1 & adjective.

Pied Piper (oh)

n
the Pied Piper (of Hamelin)
the main character in an old story about a man who got rid of all the rats from the town of Hamelin in Germany, by playing his flute and making the rats follow him into the river and drown in it. When he was not paid for this job, the Pied Piper played his flute again and led away all the town's children too.
someone that Other people like or admire, who attracts many followers

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